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Arkan15

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Lazy miner.
« on: July 24, 2007, 04:43:00 pm »
When I bridged the chasm in my new fort, I disabled mining on my Legendary miner so that if I caused a magma flood, he wouldn't get burninated. (Good thing too, because the miner who breached the flow DID cause a flood and died instantly).

Thing is... I went back and reenabled mining on him, but he's just sitting in his room saying he has no job even though I tagged a bunch of stuff for mining, including all of the obsidian the flood caused.

How can I get him out of this rut?

EDIT: Ugh, I enabled stone hauling on him and he's doing THAT fine. He just ain't mining for some reason.

[ July 24, 2007: Message edited by: Arkan15 ]

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ktrey

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Re: Lazy miner.
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2007, 04:50:00 pm »
He should eventually reach the task. Make sure his pick is accessible if he dropped it when you removed Mining. I know that temporarily activating a dwarf will remove the "Attend Party" task, it may be worth a shot to get him back on Mining, if you can spare the unhappy thought.
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DR

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Re: Lazy miner.
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2007, 04:51:00 pm »
Can he get to a pick?
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Arkan15

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Re: Lazy miner.
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2007, 04:53:00 pm »
After hauling a few dozen stones a few seconds after I enabled it, (mmmm, perfectly agile), he suddenly went back to mining. No clue why.

Thanks anyway.

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Draco18s

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Re: Lazy miner.
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2007, 09:46:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by Arkan15:
<STRONG>When I bridged the chasm in my new fort, I disabled mining on my Legendary miner so that if I caused a magma flood, he wouldn't get burninated. (Good thing too, because the miner who breached the flow DID cause a flood and died instantly).</STRONG>

Chance to cause floods when breaking into a new area is inversly proportional to the miner's skill.  A legendary miner should never cause a magma flood.
(Just as a testament to this, in 14 or so games I've never had the magma river flood on me.

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ktrey

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Re: Lazy miner.
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2007, 12:31:00 pm »
It is possible for a Legendary Miner to die in a Magma flood. It has unhappily happened to me more than once.

Now, having a Miners pick break... That's only happened once. I received an announcement about it and had to forge another. Has that happened to anyone else?

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